Terrifying moment family's £50,000 electric Mercedes explodes into flames while it is charging overnight at home By Matthew Cox Published: 09:15, 31 October 2024 | Updated: 09:16, 31 October 2024 e-mail View comments This is the shocking moment a family's £50,000 electric Mercedes burst into flames as it charged on their driveway. Dramatic CCTV footage shows the luxury EQA model explode just feet away from Scott and Georgina Bayliss' front door. The blaze was so intense it set fire to the garage and caused smoke damage to the front bedroom of the home in Spratton, Northamptonshire.
A video of the driveway shows that the car is smoking at first, which the family inside heard but through might bee fireworks, before it erupted into flames. Fire coming through the bonnet flashed green as the blaze spread across the whole car before Scott, 47, attempted to quell the inferno with a hosepipe. This is the shocking moment a family's £50,000 electric Mercedes burst into flames as it charged on their driveway Scott and Georgina Bayliss were baffled about the cause of the fire which engulfed their car The Mercedes-Benz EQA was hardly recognisable by the time the inferno subsided As firefighters raced to the house after Scott and Georgina's son James, 17, raised the alarm at around 9.
15pm on September 30, the family scrambled to protect what they could. One family member is seen pulling a second car off the driveway and away from danger, allowing more of the others to attempt to hose d.